worth noting, this is actually the second study on the origin of sino-tibetan that has come out in the past month (this is the other one)--both of them, interestingly, reach the same conclusions....
worth noting, this is actually the second study on the origin of sino-tibetan that has come out in the past month (this is the other one)--both of them, interestingly, reach the same conclusions. /r/linguistics has some additional details from one of the people who worked on the paper done in the OP.
there are still a lot of competing theories, though, so despite these two papers coming to the same conclusion, don't mistake it as a consensus. even with this research the lingustic community is still quite far from coming to any one conclusion on the origins or grouping of the sino-tibetan languages.
you know, it'd be nice if some of y'all actually explained your visceral negative reactions to articles or institutes or whatever else instead of making quips like this that contribute nothing to...
you know, it'd be nice if some of y'all actually explained your visceral negative reactions to articles or institutes or whatever else instead of making quips like this that contribute nothing to the threads they're in. this is like the third comment i've seen in this vein today, and none of them have spawned any form of discussion--they've just been discarded and popped with a few noises so that nobody ever sees them, because nobody can do shit with a "yikes"
worth noting, this is actually the second study on the origin of sino-tibetan that has come out in the past month (this is the other one)--both of them, interestingly, reach the same conclusions. /r/linguistics has some additional details from one of the people who worked on the paper done in the OP.
there are still a lot of competing theories, though, so despite these two papers coming to the same conclusion, don't mistake it as a consensus. even with this research the lingustic community is still quite far from coming to any one conclusion on the origins or grouping of the sino-tibetan languages.
you know, it'd be nice if some of y'all actually explained your visceral negative reactions to articles or institutes or whatever else instead of making quips like this that contribute nothing to the threads they're in. this is like the third comment i've seen in this vein today, and none of them have spawned any form of discussion--they've just been discarded and popped with a few noises so that nobody ever sees them, because nobody can do shit with a "yikes"